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Yes. Most of the elves in the Tolkien movies look nothing like elves to me but the one that bugs me the most is Elrond. Elrond should look beautiful. Arwen is the most beautiful woman in the Third Age (with the caveat that some in-canon prefer Galadriel) and her description is that she was a female-version of Elrond. Elrond should be really good looking. He most definitely should not be losing his hair.

Agreed, but I was much more put off by Celeborn. He just looks nothing like an elf. Elrond at least had a striking, sort of unearthly alien appearance that made you think he could definitely be an ancient non-human creature even if he wasn't the sort of beautiful that a Tolkien elf should be, but uggghhhhh Celeborn. He just looked like a regular dude. Not even a slender, angular regular dude either.

I can give most elves a pass for not being as beautiful as elves should be because honestly I don't think it's possible for human live-action actors to look like how elves should look, you'd need to go into the realm of artsy high-tier animation for that, but at least you can select actors with appropriate face/body types.

Celeborn was a little weird but after seeing Elrond it didn't faze me as much. I disagree with your assessment of Hugo looking unearthly. He looked like a middle-aged man in a wig. I like Hugo but he was not right for the part. There was nothing elvish about him. He would've been better as Denethor.

Well it depends on what you mean by unearthly. I didn't mean he looked angelic or fairy-like or THAT kind of unearthly, I meant he looked sufficiently strange and striking enough to seem like a member of an alien species. Celeborn just looked incredibly...normal.

I didn't mean angelic or fairy-like. I think he looks like a normal human who's been around the block. Same as Celeborn's actor. No difference.

Eh, I'll agree to disagree. Those killer eyebrows are pretty fantastico IMO.

I felt the same way about Elrond and Celeborn. I thought they should've chosen men who were more "ageless" looking (to match Cate Blanchett) or androgynous. No receding hairlines because come on...

I agree with the conclusion, but not with the justification. I don't think elvish appearances have that much to do with genetics apart from hair/eye color.

nayrt

IDK, wasn't Luthien the most beautiful elf in the history of everything precisely because a) her mother was a Maia (basically a frickin' angel) and b) her dad was so gorgeous a frickin' angel fell in love with him and actually spent several decades just standing and staring at him going "holy fuck he is so gorgeous"? Also, Galadriel is one of the most beautiful elf women ever as well, and her brother Finrod is described as the fairest of all the Noldor princes. I think genetics certainly has some input into beauty levels.

her mother was a Maia (basically a frickin' angel) and b) her dad was so gorgeous a frickin' angel fell in love with him and actually spent several decades just standing and staring at him going "holy fuck he is so gorgeous"?

I think I like this better than Tolkiens version. LOL

ayrt

But that pretty much is Tolkien's version. He just didn't word it quite like that.

I'm not sure what you're trying to say. In the book, Arwen is directly compared to her father and called beautiful in the same breath. That's why I think he's beautiful too.

The direct quote is, "In the middle of the table, against the woven cloths upon the wall, there was a chair under a canopy, and there sat a lady fair to look upon, and so like was she in form of womanhood to Elrond that Frodo guessed that she was one of his close kindred. Young she was and yet not so. The braids of her dark hair were touched by no frost, her white arms and clear face were flawless and smooth, and the light of stars was in her bright eyes, grey as a cloudless night; yet queenly she looked, and thought and knowledge were in her glance, as of one who has known many things that the years bring."

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